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Victron BMV-700 Installation Advise
For our 2000 Mid-Bath, I would like to install the Monitor at eye-level between the microwave and the range hood. In planning the wiring for installation , routing the UTP cable between the Shunt and the Monitor is not obvious. After leaving the battery box it can route above the water tank easily but I can't find a path to the overhead cabinet.  Perhaps it can be routed in the refrigerator box.

I am hoping someone perhaps has a solution.

Thank you. Pat Grant
2000 MB
Re: Victron BMV-700 Installation Advise
Reply #1 –
"Perhaps it can be routed in the refrigerator box."

That's one way. Another is to run it up alongside the vent pipe in the corner behind the sink. Or you could run it up the inside wall by the stove (the wall with the fridge on its other side), or the outside wall adjacent to that, using Wiremold to conceal it. Of course it will require drilling a hole in the countertop back there, but that's pretty easy to do.

I've done both. I recently installed a marine propane detector's readout in the location you have in mind for the BMV700, running the wire up the stove/fridge corner. The detector's sensor, which is supposedly of higher quality than the standard RV detector I had before, is mounted down below at floor level, so its cable had to be brought up to the separate readout head, which is about the same size and shape as the BMV700. (I have my BMV-700 mounted in a cabinet end panel, along with a bunch of other monitor panels.)
Andy Baird
2021 Ford Ranger towing 2019 Airstream 19CB
Previously: 1985 LD Twin/King "Gertie"; 2003 LD Midbath "Skylark"
Re: Victron BMV-700 Installation Advise
Reply #2 –
The only direct, hidden pathway is through the refrigerator compartment.
I have spent a bit of time pondering this, in the past.
Some have mounted the battery meter on the right side of the refrigerator, using surface mount, wire molding, to avoid going through the refrigerator compartment.

Access the refrigerator compartment from the roof, after removing the vent cover.
Drill through the top, front corner of the overhead cabinet, above the stove, to access the refrigerator compartment.
Use a piece of lightweight tubing, dropped down the side of the refrigerator compartment, as a guide, for the wires.

Larry
Larry
2003 23.5' Front Lounge, since new.  Previously 1983 22' Front Lounge.
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